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Depression and Torture [PDF]

open access: yesMilitary Medicine, 2001
Torture represents an exceptionally traumatic experience in which horror, helplessness, and hopelessness are extreme. Therefore, it can be expected that depression, along with other trauma-related disorders is present in torture victims at higher rates than in other psychotraumatized individuals. To demonstrate this, we examined two groups of refugees,
Rončević-Gržeta, Ika   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The torture victim and the dentist: The social and material dynamics of trauma re-experiencing triggered by dental visits

open access: yesTorture Journal, 2021
Introduction: The flow of refugees towards Europe over the past decade has placed increased demands on the health care services. A significant proportion of refugees have been subjected to torture involving their mouth or teeth, still the importance of ...
A. C. Høyvik   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Music as Torture / Music as Weapon

open access: yesThe Auditory Culture Reader, 2020
One of the most startling aspects of musical culture in the post-Cold War United States is the systematic use of music as a weapon of war. First coming to mainstream attention in 1989, when US troops blared loud music in an effort to induce Panamanian ...
Suzanne G. Cusick
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Co-development of a clinical rehabilitation model with an evidence-based approach for torture survivors

open access: yesBJPsych Open, 2023
Torture is designed to silence, render powerless, oppress and terrify not just the individual torture survivor but the whole society where the act of torture occurs.
Kolbassia Haoussou, Katy Robjant
doaj   +1 more source

Defining and documenting threats in the context of ill-treatment and torture. Medical and psychological perspectives.

open access: yesTorture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture, 2021
Threats are a common feature of detention and interrogation settings and have long been regarded as a routine procedure. Despite their prevalence and propensity to amount to ill-treatment and torture, threats have not been systematically and thoroughly ...
P. Pérez‐Sales
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hostage-taking as torture: Alice Edwards’ report to the UN Human Rights Council

open access: yesTorture
The report A/HRC/58/55 entitled Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: hostage-taking as torture, prepared by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, was submitted to the Human Rights Council
Berta Soley, Pau Pérez-Sales
doaj   +2 more sources

International survey of the utilisation of physiotherapy in treatment centers for survivors of torture

open access: yesTorture, 2021
Introduction: Literature about treatment of survivors of torture tends to focus on counseling and primary medical care. There are fewer published articles about the utilization of physiotherapy at treatment centers for survivors of torture and other ...
Laura Janet Pizer Gueron   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of an Alternative Learning System for youths at risk of involvement in urban violence in the Philippines

open access: yesCost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021
Background Globally, violence disproportionately affects young people, leading to injury, hospitalisation, death, social dysfunction, and poor mental wellbeing.
Nishant Mehra   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Torture without Torturers [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Anthropology, 2020
What happens when trauma becomes a political frame for recognizing anti-black racism and police violence?
openaire   +1 more source

Protocol on Medico-Legal Documentation of Sleep Deprivation

open access: yesTorture, 2019
This Protocol originates from a joint project regarding documentation of psychological torture initiated by the Public Committee against Torture in Israel (PCATI), REDRESS and DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY) in 2015 after the ...
Pau Pérez-Sales   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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